Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Earth; terrestrial.
- adjective Derived from or containing tellurium, especially with valence 6.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or proceeding from the earth: as, a disease of telluric origin; telluric deities.
- Of, containing, or derived from tellurium: as, telluric acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
- adjective (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with
tellurous compounds. - adjective (Min.) tetradymite.
- adjective (Min.) hessite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to the Earth.
- adjective chemistry Containing
tellurium in a lowervalency than intellurous compounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium
- adjective of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
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Examples
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We are not, it appears to me, more justified in applying the term telluric to the nickel and iron, the olivine and pyroxene (augite), found in meteoric stones, than in indicating the
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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These views must not, therefore, be confounded with what is commonly termed the telluric or atmospheric origin of meteoric stones, nor yet with the singular opinion of Aristotle, which supposed the enormous mass of ®gos
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Look, if I can spell 'Australian Aboriginal Hebephile', I can spell 'telluric' easily, OK?
Army Rumour Service 2009
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There some posters on Arrse who would find it difficult to put "telluric" on any form withour committing fraud/perjury/whatever.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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They thread through their own strands of infection into the pheremonal plumage of kingdom socialites and prostitutes, the telluric ephemera of engineers and navigators, the chemical sequencing of medics and pushers alike.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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You must be plugged into the telluric currents of Midwestern baseball.
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But Ojakangas, too, is interested in the notion of the event as it relates to the law and its "sacred origins," traceable back to the telluric relation to the earth.
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But Ojakangas, too, is interested in the notion of the event as it relates to the law and its "sacred origins," traceable back to the telluric relation to the earth.
enowning enowning 2009
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Rykwert, The idea of a town - The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy 1999, p.126: "As the egg was a picture of the whole universe, so the telluric mundus became a representation of what the Pythagoreans were the first to call cosmos."
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Rykwert, The idea of a town - The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy 1999, p.126: "As the egg was a picture of the whole universe, so the telluric mundus became a representation of what the Pythagoreans were the first to call cosmos."
More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world 2009
yarb commented on the word telluric
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August 30, 2008
mollusque commented on the word telluric
I dreaded their panting, their heavy, telluric breath, skinless bones, viscera creaking and fetid with black-grease drool.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 11
September 29, 2008